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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344543
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Wild Man from Borneo: species, race, representation. This project addresses the representation of species boundaries in Western accounts of the orangutan in the 19th and 20th centuries. Darwinian theory raised the possibility that animals could ?evolve?. Orangutans seemed ?closest? to humans and therefore raised key questions about the border between humans and animals. These questions were addressed in a vast range of scientific, popular, imaginative and juvenile literature. Even when ecological models of the environment shifted attention from evolutionary potential to ecological role, orangutans retained a special status as ?sentinel? species. This project will produce a monograph examining the construction, maintenance and erosion of ideas of species boundaries.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 12-2007
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $69,666.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Literary Studies | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified |
